Item Attributes in Business Central

I’ve never talked about this feature of Business Central (and NAV 2017) that I find interesting and that can be useful. It can be used to store and manage some information related to articles in a simple way; it is not a product configurator but can be useful and can be enhanced with some small customizations.

Some Benefits

You can add additional details to items (ex: E-commerce attributes)

You can define many types of attributes fields

You can manage also multi language for attributes

You can block an old attribute and values (like in Dimensions)

In addition, you can use attributes in Sales Orders… or where you need, with a little and simple customizations.

Item Attributes – Tables

#1 – Let’s now look at some functional examples:

Open Item Attributes

Define a new attribute (ex: SIZE Attribute, Type=OPTION)

Note: If you select Option in the Type field, then you can choose the Item Attribute Values action to create values for the item attribute.

Define ATTRIBUTEVALUES and TRANSLATIONS

We can assign Item Attributes Values

Ex: Dimensions (Values) for “Size” Item Attribute

We can also define a “translation” for each value

At “the end”…. we can find the “New Item Attribute” SIZE ready to use in Attribute List Page.

Item Attributes, where I can find them on Item Card?

In Items List Page and in Item Card Page you can open “Attributes” to select attributes and assign values for them.

Ex: Attributes from Item Card

NOTE:

Blocked Attributes and blocked Attribute Values are hidden in the dropdown list.

Filtering by Attributes

You can filter objects by Attributes Ex: Filtering on Item List Page

#2 – Attributes for Item Categories

We can also define attributes for the “Item Categories” will be applied to the item while creating new Items.

Note: By Default, Item attributes for parent categories will be inherited to child categories, you can change\override them as you want.